Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-09-10


right, that a teacher, paid from the public
treasury, shall be supplied them.
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PEOPLE.
The people of California are distin-
guished for intelligence, enterprise, indus
try, and cordiality of manners They well
come strangers, and by the improvements
which they are continually making, they
attract business and give value to the land
The emigrant should never forget that the
greatest resource of a couStry-bettert than
gold, silver, COAL iron, or than all together
is an educated, orderly, energetic popu-
lation, such rs California has.
The emigrant wants to 90 to a country
that has large area of good land unoccu-
pied. California has, according to esti-
mate S0,000,000 acres of tillable land, of
which less than 100000 are inclosed, and
over 100000 acres remain open to pllr-
chase. Much Of this land is remarkably
fertile, producing more wheat, more grapes
and fruit to the acre than any land in the
Atlantic States or Europe. The climate
has many advantages. The sanitary con-
dition of the State is most excellent.
There is a great opening for manufactures,
which must be built up, because of the
abundance of raw material; the great cost
of exporting it and reimporting the manu-
factured articles will give protection to
home production. The State produces
VARIETY OF VALUABLE ARTICLES.
The richest mines of the northern hemis-
phere are here. The annual product of
gold is more than S20,000,000; that of
Amador county alone being in the neigh
borhood Of 100000 which will continue
to increase as the mines being developed
to-day are the richest and most extensive
in the world.
All these many and superior advantages
must infallibly result in attracting to Cali
fornia a large migration, and consequently
land will rise in value and trade will in
crease with rapidity, thus securing a large
profit to those who settle here soon.
Rev. John Todd, who visited Amador
county several years since, in his book,
The Sunset Land" says: "There is a
natural tendency to disbelieve the traveller
who comes back to his Eastern home and
reports things which he has seen that are
very unlike our own experience. We
think he must have been in a kind of
mental fog, in which everything looked
large; or he must have been credulous and
easily imposed upon; or that he comes
home wishing to be regarded as a hero,
and is therefore tempted to cxaggerate. 1t
is also an acknowledgment of our own
ignorance and want of enlargement, to
own that another has seen what we never
saw, and can tell us of things which we
cannot deny, but which we can doubt
THE FUTURE OF THIS STATE.
California has great future. Our gold
is there! Our silver is there! Commerce
is making herself Il great place there I.
Noble men and beautiful children are
there! Multitudes are gathering there !
Free schools are there! Colleges are being
planted in great numbers thercl And a
great future must be there.
Il stand on the nights of the Sierra
Nevada, and | look off over mountain and
valley, till | see the blue waters of the
Pacific, and see centuries crowding into
single years, and | sec showers of mercy
which have hung up in the dry air
descending upon that wonderful region.
From the place where the sun rises has
our race been travelling towards where the
sun sets, to the present time. Every gen
Grafton has seen Westward the star of
empire take its way till that star can no
longer guide the poor wanderer farther
In that long march of ages, what cities
and nations have halted long enough to